User's Guide for L3TCFTTrack

Raymond Beuselinck, Imperial College

Introduction

L3TCFTTrack is a CFT track finding tool for Level 3. It finds tracks based on CFT clusters only.

Sample triggerlist entry

CFTUNPACK L3TCFTUnpack(tooltype=unpack)
CFTTRACK L3TCFTTrack(tooltype=data, UNPACK=CFTUNPACK, ptcut=1.0)

Triggerlist Parameters

UNPACK
Name of CFT unpack tool. Currently only L3TCFTUnpack is supported.
ptcut
Minimum transverse momentum cut for tracking in GeV/c. Default is 1.0. Minimum allowed value is 0.5. This is an optional parameter.

Algorithm

Track finding is done is two stages. First circular arcs are found in the x-y plane using a link and tree algorithm. For suitable candidates straight lines are then constructed in the tan(lambda) - Z plane using an unbinned Hough Transform method. Further details are given in D0 note 3779.

Status

Tested with Monte-Carlo data on Unix.


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